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Good morning #Fediverse and welcome to Monday.
As I've been watching the unfolding drama over #Breadutube and #Contrapoints (non)statement about Palestine and Gaza, there's been many questions coming to mind on the entire phenomenon of 'content creation'. I'm particular intrigued by the Patreon model, about which I've got mixed feelings but can't truly articulate them. Does anyone know about study/research on 'Patreon economies' and can point them to me?
Thank you!

If you want to customise what is on your main Mastodon timeline, there are lots of ways of tweaking it listed in this guide:

➡️ fedi.tips/does-mastodon-and-th

The guide also mentions that there is no algorithm in your Mastodon timeline. The only posts you see are from accounts and hashtags you follow, or posts that are shared by accounts you follow.

fedi.tipsDoes Mastodon and the Fediverse use algorithms? How do I customise what’s in my timeline if there’s no algorithm? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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If you see a reply shared out of context, you can view the thread it comes from by just clicking on the reply.

Clicking on a reply or post takes you to an enlarged view of it, with the rest of the thread visible by scrolling up or down.

(I know this is obvious to some people but not to everyone. How to view a reply's context regularly comes up as a question.)

If you follow someone and you enjoy their posts but you don't like their boosts, you can hide just their boosts:

1. Click on their name or picture to go to their profile page
2. Click ⋯
2. Select "Hide Boosts"

If you change your mind, go back to their profile and select "Show Boosts".

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Boosting is really important on the Fediverse because it makes whatever you boost federate its gayness to the entire servers of your followers. A boosted post makes your followers' timelines more gay, and also contributes to the gayness of everyone on the servers of your followers.

Instead of venture capital, the Fediverse relies on human beings sharing gayness. This process creates a wonderful rainbow of gayness.

Boosting is really important on the Fediverse because it makes whatever you boost federate to the entire servers of all your followers. A boosted public post appears on your followers' timelines, but also becomes searchable to everyone on the servers of your followers.

Instead of an algorithm, the Fediverse relies on human beings sharing stuff they find interesting. This process creates a wonderful chain of discovery.

To boost something here, click the 🔁 or 🚀 button below the post.

Mastodon's server software has just been updated, it is now on all servers that have updated to the latest version 4.4.0.

The biggest change is the revamping of the mobile website interface, it now uses screen space much more effectively and has a main menu identical to the desktop site (click ☰ to see it).

If you've previously avoided the mobile website, you might want to try it again?

If you enjoy using the website, you can install it as an app: fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-a

You can discover thousands of hand-picked Fediverse accounts organised into hundreds of different topics on the FediFollows website at:

➡️ fedi.directory

- To follow an account listed on the site, paste its address into your search box on Mastodon etc.

- To find out more about an account, click on its address to see its profile.

You don't need to wait for me to randomly post accounts on an interesting topic, the site has accounts for lots of topics! 🙂

fedi.directoryFedi.Directory – Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse
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A common question about Mastodon is the difference between favourites and bookmarks:

⭐ Favourites are the "likes" of Mastodon. If you favourite a post, it lets the author know you enjoyed it and adds your username to the "favourites" section below that post.

🔖 Bookmarks are a private way of keeping track of posts you want to go back to later. When you bookmark a post, no one else knows about it. Bookmarking just adds the post to your own private list of bookmarks.

In case you missed it, there is now a Fediverse alternative to Strava called Wanderer:

➡️ wanderer.to

There is a public server list at:

➡️ wanderer.to/servers

To sign up on a server, click on "Create Account", then "Login", then "Make One".

If you're running your own public Wanderer server you can add it to the list at github.com/Flomp/wanderer/disc

Techy people can self-host using instructions at wanderer.to/run/installation

wanderer DocumentationWelcome to wandererThe self-hosted trail database
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I can't believe I have to say this mastodon. This isn't 1996, and you're not learning how to use Eudora:

When you're replying to a boosted post: Do. Not. CC. Everyone.

Reply directly to the person you're trying to speak to. Remove the @'s to everyone else not directly involved in the conversation.

yes, I know the clients automatically chain on the usernames of everyone involved in the post, but this is 1990s era basic netiquette and not magic.

Mastodon sometimes introduces new features when its server software is updated. If you want to use these new features, your server has to be running the latest version of Mastodon.

You can see your server's version on its desktop website in the bottom left corner, and on its mobile website at the bottom of the site's "About" page. It looks like "v4.3.9" or similar.

Lots more info and questions answered about checking Mastodon versions at:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-check-which

fedi.tipsHow do I check which version of Mastodon is running on a server? What are Mastodon forks? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Latest version of #FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, allows for the use of multiple accounts on multiple Mastodon servers. Also fixes some #GoToSocial interoperability issues.

* Link: michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fe
* Code: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f
* Video of FediAlgo in action: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist
* Release notes: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f

If you want to change the order of your pinned posts, do these steps:

1. Click the pinned post you want to put at the top, so that you are now in the enlarged view of that post
2. Click ⋯ and then "Unpin"
3. Wait a little bit
4. Click ⋯ and then "Pin"

It's important you click to enlarge the post before you unpin it, because otherwise it will disappear back to its original place on your timeline and it may be fiddly to find it again (especially if it's an older post).